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Popularity: -1 Vote:	At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	Boys like something to hang onto!
Popularity: 3 Vote:	But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Eating vegetables makes me feel good.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I definitely have a Fisher voice.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	I loved psychology and I loved history.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	I went to my first audition-it was for Annie-in my Catholic school plaid-skirt uniform.
Popularity: -3 Vote:	I wish I could do the whole Spinning class thing like everyone else. It's probably the best thing for your butt.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I would say the part that changed my career was a movie called I'll Do/Be Anything, directed and written by James L. Brooks.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
Popularity: -4 Vote:	I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	If I find the time, I do some yoga or some cross-training.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	It's sad to say, but I'm the kid who failed PE in high school. How do you fail PE? I had to repeat it four times my senior year!
Popularity: -1 Vote:	Lately we've had conversations about how the business is so different from before.
Popularity: 6 Vote:	More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny!
Popularity: -1 Vote:	My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Seriously, in our business, we all know there are actresses who are too thin, but that's not what most people look like or are supposed to look like.
Popularity: 5 Vote:	Since having my daughter I've found my adult body, and I feel comfortable with it.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	We would perform shows in restaurants and we would put on Girl Scout musicals in the living room whether my mother and her friends liked it or not.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	When I came back from school I was heavy. I wasn't obese, but I was the funny fat best friend - never the leading lady.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	You don't have to be that skinny, and you don't want to be so overweight that you're unhealthy - somewhere in the middle is just fine.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.

Biography

Joely Fisher (born October 29, 1967) is an American actress.

She was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens. Her younger sister is actress Tricia Leigh Fisher. Her older half-sister and half-brother are actress Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher, whose mother is actress Debbie Reynolds.

Her parents divorced when she was age two and she was raised by her mother. She was unaware that she had any other siblings until sometime after watching Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars (1977), when she was told that the actress starring as Princess Leia Organa was her half-sister.

Joely began performing on stage in her mother's Las Vegas act at age seven. She and Tricia toured the world with Stevens, attending many different schools and having tutors. They then attended Beverly Hills High School. Joely went the University of Paris for one semester. While on her way there, she stopped off in New York and dropped in unannounced on her father, reestablishing relations with him as she forced her way into his life. She then attended Emerson College, but left before graduating to begin an acting career.

Having a weight problem as an adolescent, she played the "fat friend" in summer stock. Her movie debut was in the part as Averil in the comedy Pretty Smart (1986), which starred her sister, Tricia. Joely then played Kris in TV's Schoolbreak Special drama Dedicated to the One I Love (1991) opposite Danielle Ferland. Next came the feature I'll Do Anything (1994) starring Nick Nolte, which helped her career as bigger roles followed.

Fisher's Broadway debut was as a replacement in the revival of Grease (1994). She was also a replacement in the revival of Cabaret (1998).

She has had one husband, cinematographer Christopher Duddy (married December 31, 1996-present). She and Duddy have one daughter, Skylar Grace Fisher-Duddy (born June 14, 2001).

Fisher played Paige Clark in the TV series Ellen, and the role as Dr. Brenda Bradford in the feature movie Inspector Gadget (1999) opposite Matthew Broderick. In 2000, she starred in the role as Lucy Hudson in the sci-fi movie Nostradamus opposite Rob Estes.

Her guest appearances on TV include Growing Pains, Blossom, Caroline in the City, The Outer Limits, Grace Under Fire and Coach. She has also done voice work, including the role as Lana Lang in the animated series '' (1996-2000).

Joely Fisher is currently starring on Lifetime's Wild Card'' as Zoe Busiek.

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